After the season of goodwill, it’s the season of self denial and resolution. In theory it’s a great idea, but in practice more than three quarters of New Year Resolutions are never achieved. This is why I think New Year Resolutions don’t work: They start on a short burst of willpower that doesn’t last. A [...] Read more »
The First ChangeCamp+Plus – Saturday February 4th, 2012
In-Depth Professional & Self Development Workshops ChangeCamp is a twice yearly self & professional development workshop running in Newcastle upon Tyne, it is designed to give taster sessions in a variety of subjects. Each session lasts for one and a half hours, it is a finger buffet of different approaches to psychological change work. While hugely [...] Read more »
Cinderella And The Two Ugly Sisters: Self-compassion, self-esteem and self-criticism.
“The greatest sickness known to man or woman is called self-esteem. If you have self-esteem, then you’re sick, sick, sick, because you say: I’m okay because I do well and because people love me, so when I do poorly, which I’m a fallible human and will, and people hate me because they may jealously hate [...] Read more »
Free ebook "7 steps to more wellbeing" is now even free-er
I have decided to make my e-book “7 steps to more wellbeing” completely free. You can now download the book without having to give me any email details or sign up to my newsletter to get it. If you want to sign up to my occasional (monthly-ish) newsletter, and I’d really like to be able to send [...] Read more »
What Happens When You Undo A "Should" Using EFT?
In last month’s EFT Cafe practice group we worked on a process designed to undo the procrastinating power of shoulds. On the face of it shoulds sound like an innocent statement of intent – I should mow the lawn, I should complete this project – but it turns out to create a subtle, or not [...] Read more »
